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The Winding Road Toward Quality Education

1933 Thurgood Marshall graduates first in his class from Howard University's School also a classmate and one of the Brown counsels, graduates second. Marshall and Hill by the Law School's vice-dean Charles Hamilton Houston.

1934 Houston joins the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People time counsel.

1935 After having been denied admittance to the University of Maryland Law School, case in the Maryland Court of Appeals against the Law School, which gains admission the first black applicant to a white southern law school.

1936 Marshall joins the NAACP's legal staff.

1938 Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Danada:
The U.S. Supreme Court invalidates state laws that required African-American studen state graduates schools to avoid admitting them to their states all-white facilities or bui graduate schools for them.

1940 Marshall writes the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's corporate c its first director and chief counsel.

1940 Alson v. School Board of City of Norfolk:
A federal appeals court orders that African-American teachers be paid salaries equalteachers.

1948 Sipuel v. Oklahoma State Regents:
The supreme Court rules that a state cannot bar an African-American stuent from its on the ground that she had not requested the state to provide a separate law school fo

1949 Jack Greenberg graduates from Columbia Law School and joins LDF as a staff

1950 Charles Hamilton Houston dies. He was the chief architect of the NAACP LDF racial equality, Thurgood Marshall's teacher and mentor, and Dean of Howard Univers

1950 McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents:
The Supreme Court holds that an African-American student admitted to a formerly all- school could not be subjected to practices of segregation that interfered with meaning

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